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“Purgatory is like our modern colleges: no one can flunk out of them. - from his intro into his translation of the divine comedy.”
― Ciardi, John,

“People don't want a bookkeeper for an Emperor; they want a master, someone who'll protect them from change.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“It is deplorable, Agamemnon, that men's words should ever seem to speak more loudly than their deeds. Good deeds alone should make the doer eloquent, and bad deeds dress themselves in rotten arguments, not gloze their foulness with fair colours. There are men who make this practice a fine art. Their cleverness, so-called, cannot last long; they all, without exception, come to a bad end.”
― Euripides, Medea & Other Plays

“if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything”
― Ronald H. Coase